Editing Sway bars and Strut braces (section)

==Fitting Adjustable Sway Bar to Aus Sedan/Wagon==

I looked through Nissan FAST to see what other cars had a similar link, following the hint from GTS20X that N14s had almost the same thing.  It looked like N14, N15, U13, B12, probably others all had the same thing.  So went to the wreckers, no B12s in Australia so forget about that, found some N14s, N15s, U13s though.  The N14 & N15 seem to have the same link as each other and they're a bit shorter than the U13 link but would probably work.  I came home with some U13 links.  And now for some picture overkill:

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Slight problem though, in that the Whiteline bar tang is really thick, so not enough thread comes through:

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But the inner hex is actually a separate nut, not part of the shaft, so put it in the vise (couple of aluminium plates to avoid fucking the thread) and started it:

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Then finished it with aluminium inside vise grip jaws:

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So that exposed some more thread:

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I shortened the inner nut:

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Made the tang on the bar thinner, flat and parallel.  The outside face wasn't too bad, but the inner face was all lumpy, concave, and not parallel to outer.  Used two and a half cutting discs to do that.  Did it in bursts, so as not to get the steel too hot, although the mass of the bar was a pretty good heatsink.  Painted it with a couple of coats of zinc undercoat:

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Fitted.  Nolathane radius bushes, Whiteline swaybar link bushes, Noltec LCA inner bush, Superpro swaybar body bushes, quite colourful from different angles:

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The bushes that came with the bar were for an import coupe.  They don't fit the domestic bush shells, so bought some Superpro 27mm ID bushes:

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GTS-Retro used some Ford links, couldn't remember the part number for the links he made, went to a car place here and looked through their stock till he found something he could use:

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